Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.